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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. - Chuck Palahniuk
“It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, exploding Christmas.” — Stephen Colbert
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. – Simon Weil
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” - Denis Waitley
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
-Thomas Jefferson
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa
Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks. - Matthew Desmond
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
-Carl Gustav Jung
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. - George Orwell (from his dystopian novel 1984)
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
-Isaac Newton
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
—Will Ferrell
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto von Bismarck
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -Henry Winkler
“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
-Sigmund Freud
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Jung
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” – George Carlin
I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - C. S. Lewis
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." — Eleanor Roosevelt
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. - Jim Morrison
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein